I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies Iuse at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

Now for the GIVEAWAY info! Simon Says Stamp is generously offering a $25 gift card at each stop on this hop! (thanks Heidi!). To be entered in to win one from here all you need to do is leave a comment on this post! I'll use Random.org to choose a winner Sunday night (Dec 11, 2016), and all the winners will be announced on the Simon Says Stamp blog Monday evening!

December 08, 2016

Since getting sick and just life in general has really got in the way of my Christmas card series this year - I may or may not be posting several videos back-to-back LOL! Or I may just cut my losses this year and save the insane amount of stamps and dies I'd accumulated for this year and use them next year - I haven't decided yet.

Anywho - I'd made these recently and wanted to share:

Anyone who knows me knows I love pink for holiday/Christmas cards - and while I'm normally more of a gold fan (though if you told my teenage self that I'd prefer gold to silver I'd have been horrified) I am LOVING the combo of pink with grey/silver/liquid platinum.

I kept these cards super simple one-layer cards with just stamping the tree and layering images from MFT's Oh Christmas Trees stamp set. I then embossed the sentiments from the MFT Hand-Lettered Christmas set with silver embossing powder on 2 of them and Liquid Platinum EP on the other 2. I like both!

The insides involved more stamping with the same inks and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

I'm SO behind it's ridiculous. This week's Color Throwdown Challenge is up and it's a fabulous combo - check out the CTD blog post here to see what the rest of the team created with these colours!

Here's what I made:

I pulled out Simon Says Stamp's Color Me Trees stamp set and heat embossed one of the images onto a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock. I then used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and my water brush to color it in.

I die cut the sentiment 3 times and stacked it before adhering it to my card, and used the SSS Circle Doodle background stamp on the aqua card stock since it goes perfectly with this tree image!

I finished off the inside of the card with this great sentiment set from the SSS Happy Christmas stamp set and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

December 07, 2016

Hello everyone!! I've got my MFT December Release video to share with y'all - bear with me as it's a long one and my brain is still mush! Lack of sleep thanks to me being sick and being up with the littles b/c they're still sick has made it hard to string a sentence together let alone film/edit/create/work! I'm getting there though ;) :).

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

December 05, 2016

Well happy Monday :P! I'm still getting over a horrible cold, as are the 2 little ones (still hoping the older 2 don't get sick but we'll see what happens) - and so now I am SO much more behind on Christmas card videos than I thought possible!

However the fact that I'm even doing a Christmas Card series this year is an improvement as I didn't even attempt one last year! Always look to the bright side ;).

Anywho - here's the latest:

These cards were so quick and easy to whip up - mostly b/c I did something VERY similar with the same Big Numbers stamp set for my Halloween series. You can check out that post HERE if you missed it!

As I said I used Simon Says Stamp's Big Numbers stamp set for the "25" that was heat embossed onto some Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Paper. I then used several Distress inks to create a splatter/watercolor background to make the numbers pop. SO fun as it always looks different every time it's done.

The insides were kept simple with a sentiment also from a SSS stamp set - I love the layout and size of this particular sentiment - so perfect for the inside of a card!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 28, 2016

Hello everyone! After a completely crazy day, and some internet/website issues (holy Cyber Monday - EVERY site I was on today was slowed down at times) I finally have this video and post to share with y'all.

Before I get to that - speaking of Cyber Monday - I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to each and every one of you that places orders over the weekend (and at any time) via my links. I have this in my "disclaimers" that I make a small commission (at no extra cost to you guys) on my affiliate links when people use them to order - and over time they add up and it's how I do what I do. I can't say it enough how much it means to me when y'all go out of your way to use my links and those that e-mail me to tell me they spread the word and tell their friends to "come here first!" LOL! It means the world - so thank you <3 <3 <3.

OK on to the cards - so many requests for me to use these stamps/dies - and I was more than happy to oblige ;)

I used MFT's Simply Snowflakes stamp set along with the coordinating die set, the Snowfall of Blessings stamp set and the Stylish Snowflakes Die-namics. I couldn't make up my mind when I started thinking colours and what to make etc etc so in the end I went with the colours that were in the kit from a few months ago and made 8 cards.

I then used the Stylish Snowflakes Die-namics on MFT's Cornflower, Silver and Sour Apple Glitter card stock and layered those over the embossed and die cut snowflakes. In real life this glitter card stock has the prettiest shimmer - it looks so dull in pictures but it's anything but!

All the sentiments are from the Snowfall of Blessings stamp set - heat embossed as well and popped onto the cards with foam tape.

On the card fronts and on the insides I stamped snowflakes and whatnot with Versamark ink to add some more interest and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

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